A lefty mallard from Canada trying to contribute to the Fediverse, one quack at a time.
Our new plan aims to make steel, textiles, and furniture more sustainable through eco-design and energy labelling.
The new repairability score will show how easy consumer electronics and small appliances are to fix.
Be mindful of the entire lifecycle of your purchase.
Aaahh 😟 Within 9 days new bills arrive for all our servers, media storage and email sends and at this moment I am roughly €500 short on the total estimate of €1400..
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CNN spills some truth over how tariffs actually work for dairy between Canada and USA.
TLDR: The effective tariff rate for 99% of the stuff, is zero.
Gotta love Daniel Dale, a Canadian, working for CNN all these years. This is truly the moment for his fact checking to shine!
#TrumpTariffs #TradeWar #Dairy #SupplyManagement #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/politics/trump-canada-dairy-tariffs-fact-check/index.html
@northoftheborder I think this goes beyond rattling them. Reports say the US can disable them partially or completely. So ... That's not a weapon we can use for defense against a fascist invasion.
@northoftheborder that's not a lot of money. I thought it would be way worse. Doug Ford wasted way more money on canceling this or that contract. Given this reporting is by National Post, I'd expect this to be the worst case scenario.
Amazon! Canadians must end shopping on Amazon! Amazon is not just American corporation stealing Canadian business, its Bezos who STOPPED his paper from printing their endorsement of Harris, and Trump warning.
Bezos is a funder of Trump, one of the billionaires.
Canadians should cancel Prime, log out of Amazon, never shop with them again.
Cancel Prime, leave Amazon.
All of Canada's Papers are owned by one Republican Trumpist.
Crocheting with #elbowsup!
(Whatever you're doing right now to get through it all, hope yours are in the same position ...)
All we're learning from the United States is that an oligarchy will behave exactly as authoritarian as you expect an oligarchy to be.
This is why history and social studies are important - because the American people (and allies!) could have learned all this without experiencing it for themselves.
But since America's former allies are allegedly better educated in world history, we should already know that the global isolation and hyper-nationalism is all part of the plan.
Local LCBO shelves are now cleared of American products. As one of the largest purchasers of alcohol on the planet, losing LCBO business will hurt the US. Trump can stop this by reversing course on the tariffs! #topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli
He said it.
To underscore the seriousness of the Canada-US issues it is absolutely essential to understand no PM would ever utter the word 'annexation' unless they perceived it to be a real and underlying motive.
Imagine surviving three years of invasion, war crimes, and missile strikes, only to be lectured about “gratitude” by a draft-dodger and a Peter Thiel intern.
This is a damnable disgrace.
https://www.theindex.media/a-damnable-disgrace/
What's to stop Musk, who's already tried meddling with German elections, from seizing Zelenskyy's, or any other European leader's X account, and posting something with dire geopolitical consequences? We're way past the point where it's wise for European leaders and institutions to rely on a presence on X—and other US platforms are not a good long-term solution either. More should follow the example of the @EUCommission and provide their updates directly, without middlemen, through the fediverse.
@northernlights @stephanie yeah, that's top priority at the moment.
@stephanie I'm still not great at figuring out what liberal lines are just an election ruse and what are real intentions. 😂
In this case I think she was at least honest to say that she'd "put us on the path" towards UBI. Probably meant to both attract someone like us while not scaring those who shudder at the thought of UBI.
Yeah that's the one. She could if she wanted to. But I think while she's certainly progressive and she says some of the right words like "a path to basic income" and "we can't just tinker around the edges" she's very much a neoliberal and that I think is something the NDP can use less of. I think the NDP should create more distance between the LPC and themselves. For example by proposing a national grocer that sells food at cost instead of that spectacle with Galen.
@stephanie I'd like the NDP to go unapologetically left towards populist working class politics. Karina isn't there.
@fordmercure well that didn't age well. 😂
Conservative leader Pierre #Poilievre has been endorsed by Elon Musk.
Conservative premier #DougFord has not ripped up his contract with Elon Musk.
🇨🇦 Vote wisely.
Is Doug Ford still supporting Starlink and Musk's threats to cut off Starlink to extort minerals from Ukraine? #cdnpoli #OntarioElection
